Katrina doesn't read blogs. That much is obvious considering she wrote this
glorious monument to the straw man:
Why are so many liberal bloggers up in arms about Virginia Governor Timothy Kaine being picked to give the Democrat's reply to Bush's State of the Union? There's been fury in the blogosphere about everything from Kaine's looks, style, obscurity, his open talk about his faith and his inexperience in national security.
Liberal writer Ezra Klein (no Brad Pitt, last time I checked him out) vented that Kaine is "a squat, squinty, pug-nosed fellow." Even the invariably smart and strategic Arianna (Huffington) weighed in: "What the hell are they thinking?" She accused Democrats of picking "someone whose only claim to fame is that he carried a red state" when they need to make the case that "the GOP is not the party that can best keep us safe."
Yeah, why are so many liberal bloggers like Ezra, Arianna, and um ... well ... uh .... isn't two bloggers enough to smear the entire blogosphere? Of course, when you attack the liberal blogosphere based on a bullshit article by Jim Vanderhei in the Washington Post, you won't be able to produce anything better than bullshit.
Now, I'm sure the editor of the largest left-of-center magazine in the country did actual research before sounding off and attempting to call out the entire left-of-center blogosphere, right? If that's the case, she should be able to give us a few more prominent names of these allegedly outraged liberal bloggers.
Of course, this is just another line in the "liberal bloggers are wacked out leftists" narrative that old media and beltways insiders are pushing. We've seen it from party insiders, we've seen it from the traditional media, we've seen it from The New Republic. And, now, surprisingly, we're apparently seing it from The Nation.
Thank god for the American Prospect, huh?
For the record, what criticism there was wasn't based on centrist/liberal issues, it was based on the fact that John Murtha -- that Dennis Kucinich-style liberal (in Katrina's mind), would speak to the burning issue of the day -- Iraq and national security. But really, no one cared that much. It was a non-issue because really, the Democratic response is a non-issue.
How much of a non-issue? Only about 22-23 blogs even blogged it. And one of those -- Daily Kos -- actually said it was a "good choice".
And thus the straw man is felled.
(Crooks and Liars has more.)